[Samba] Upgrading Samba 4.2 to 4.4

[John Gardeniers]

Thanks Mathias. That clears it up.

regards,
John


On 25/07/16 19:32, mathias dufresne wrote:
> IMHO: no real need to move FSMO before upgrading FSMO owner if no real 
> load.
> FSMO are roles which make one DC different of others DC on one 
> specific point (for each role). As long as you don't do something 
> which requires FSMO role you won't use FSMO roles, so no matter.
>
> Things which triggers FSMO usage are modifying the schema (don't do 
> that during upgrade), reaching RID pool limit on non-FSMO DC (don't 
> add bunch of users during upgrade) and so on. These are examples, 
> roles are 7, each is triggered in different way.
>
> 2016-07-25 7:12 GMT+02:00 John Gardeniers 
> <jgardeniers at objectmastery.com <mailto:jgardeniers at objectmastery.com>>:
>
>     We're upgrading (Sernet) Samba 4.2 to 4.4. As recommended on this
>     page: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Updating_Samba, I have
>     upgraded one of out 2 DCs, the one that does not have any FSMO
>     roles. We will spend the next week making sure everything works as
>     expected. So far, so good.
>
>     One thing I'm not clear on is whether I should move the FSMO roles
>     to the upgraded DC before upgrading the other one or if it doesn't
>     really matter. Can someone please shed some light on this? Thanks.
>
>     regards,
>
>     John
>
>
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